Buckle.



' PATENTED FEB. 25; 1908.

N. HUMPHREY.

BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1907.

'o'nrrnn STATES PATENT, oFmo ERNEST N. IIUMPHR-EY, OF NEW BRITAIN,CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO TRAUT & HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEWBRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patent ed Feb:26',1908.

. Application filed July L 1907. Serial No. 313L617- To all whom it mayconcern: 1 I

Be it known that I, ERNEST N. HUMPHREY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBuckles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention r lates to improvements in buckles, and the ob ects of myimprovement are simplicity and economy inconstruetion,

. and convenience and efficiency in use, especially with reference'tobiting the .web of a 'rustless buckle without having the said web changeits position within .the buckle, when 'Fig. 4 is a plan view of thesame.

the operating lever is turned down.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a front elevation of my buckleas applied. to one end of a looped webbing. Fig. 2 is an enlargedvertical section of the same on the line at as of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is-abroken out side view of my buckle without the webbing. Fig. 5 is a frontelevation of the same with the operating lever turned up into a positionsubstantially at a right angle to the position shown in the precedingfigures. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the buckle and webbing on theline as m of Fig. 4, but with the webbing threaded differentlyfrom thethreading in Figs. 1 and 2.

' The frame or body of my buckle is in the form of a plate 7 withperforated ears or lugs 8 at each end, the said ears standing at abouta. right angle to the said plate. At the lower part'of these ears Ipivot the swinging jaw or plate 9 on the trunnions 10, with its bitingedge 11 extended between the end ears or lugs 55 up nearly to the upperedge of the plate 7, which plate constitutes the other jaw of the buckleas well as the back of the frame. This other jaw and'back of the frameis also between the end ears 8. The biting edge of the swinging jaw isbent or turned towards the rear and stands nearly 3 may be desired.

buckle as shown in .Fig. 2 the short arm 13 of the angle lever oroperating lever bears on the front of the swinging jaw 9; while the.

longer arm 15 of the said angle lever serves as a handle for operatingthe said lever.

One end-1t) of the webbing A is passed between the two jaws, that is infront of. the plate 7 and in the rear of the swinging jaw 9 while thewebbing extends downwardly so thatit is doubled over the 11 per edge ofthe said plate It may be left loose in this 0- sition or it may have theend 16 sewe or otherwise-secured to the body or other-thickness of thewebbing as illustrated at 17 in Fig. 6. The webbing is then formed intoa loop 18 and its opposite end passed upwardly between the two aws infront of the end 16 as shown in Fi 2. When so arranged one member of the00 18 extends downwardly in the rear of the ack, and the other member ofthe loop extends upwardly through the buckle between the said swingingjaw and the plate likejaw and back. When the lever handle 15- is forceddownwardly as shown in Figs-1 to 4 inclusive, the shorter arm 13 of theoperating lever is firmly pressed against the front of the swinging jawso as to cause the two jaws7 and 9 to bite both thicknesses ofthewebbing and hold them with the buckle immova'bly fixed thereon withagiven length of loop extending below the buckle. By

throwing the lever handle 15 upwardly at a right angle to the positionshown in Figs. .1 to 4, the pressure on the swinging jaw is released andthe front thickness of webbing may be pulled through the jaws in eitherdirection to shorten or engthenthe loop 18, as

Instead of passing the second thickness of webbing upwardly between thetwo jaws as before described, it may be passed upwardly in front of theswinging jaw 9 and in rear of the shorter arm of the angle lever so thatthe said shorter arm acts directly on the Webbing to hold it, as shownin Fig 6. In either event the buckle is covered byfthe webbing so as toform what is called a rustless buckle. By means of the swinging jaw I amenabled to avoid the direct contact of theshorter arm of thel operatinglever with thewebbing, whereby the webbing is less liable to be injuredvand t ere is no tendency to make the during the closbuckle crawl on thewebbin fthe lever. This ing or pinching movement 0 prevention from'crawling enables one to all combined and arranged a more convenientlyadjust the loop to the exact'length desired.

I clalm as my 'invention:.

1. A rustless buckle for a webbing, comprising a frame having aplate-like back with ears at its opposite ends, one jaw of the bucklebeing formed on the said back between the said end ears, and a free andunobstructe'd assage for the webbing over the said jaw .of t e, backbetween the said ears, a swinging 'jawpivo ltally mounted on the saidears and having a bitim edge extended lengthwise of the said framebetween the'said end ears for coacting with the jaw portion 'of the saidback, and an operating lever 'pivotally mount ed on and between the saidend ears of the frame with its shorter arm in position for acting uponthe said swinging jaw near the biting edge thereof for pressing the jawstogether, the said frame, jaws, and lever, being with a free passage forthe webbing to extend longitudinally wholly through the-buckle betweenthe said ears.

2. In a rustless buckle, the combination of a frame having a plate-likejaw and back, a swinging jaw mounted on thesaid frame and adapted tomove to and from. the said jaw and back, an operating lever mounted onthe said frame for forcing the said sw' ing jaw towards the said jaw andback, an a webbing having one end secured to the said frame and a loopextendin downwardly therefrom 'withone' member 0 the loop inthe rear ofthe said back, and the'other member thereof extending upwardly throughthe buckle between the said swinging jaw and the said plate-like jaw andback. I

ERNEST N. HUMPHREY.

Witnesses:

STANLEY PARKER, SADIE L. FINNIGAN.

